Darren Shan's Blog, page 178

Brothers To The Death on sale on Amazon UK NOW!!

Amazon UK are showing Brothers To The Death as being In Stock NOW!!! If you want to buy it early, click here: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Saga-Larten-Crep...

GUEST BLOG! Alexander Gordon Smith

For the first time ever, I'm going to allow someone else to post on my blog -- maybe this will make up for me not posting much here myself recently!! Our guest blogger is ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH, author of the Furnace series, who has a new book out called The Fury. I haven't yet had a chance to read the new work, but I'm a big fan of Furnace -- it rocked with a vengeance! So, I hope you all enjoy Gordon's guest blog, and that it intrigues you enough to go out (or go online) and pick up a copy...

Midlands signings added

Shansters in the UK Midlands take note!! I have added two new signing sessions to my Brothers of the Death Tour, both on Saturday May 5th, the first in Wolverhampton, the second in Birmingham. For full details, see the updated tour schedule in the Shanville Monthly: http://www.darrenshan.com/news/shanvi...

News Talk

I will be interviewed by Tom Dunne on the Irish NEWS TALK radio channel on Thursday 19th April, shortly after 11.00am. http://www.newstalk.ie/

Irish Times article

You can read my article in the Irish Times about Bram Stoker online here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/f...

 

Darren.

Zom-B cover

The stomach-churning UK cover for Zom-B has been released, so you guys can check it out NOW!! I hope you love it as much as I do!!! https://twitter.com/#!/simonkids_UK/s...

Limerick event - tickets on sale NOW

You can now book tickets for the first public event of my Brothers To The Death tour, in LIMERICK, on April 26th. The event takes place on the first day of publication of the book, and is the only public Irish event that I will be doing on the tour. (I've done a lot on my last few tours, so felt it was time to give my Irish fans a small break!) Not only is this the launch of my final Mr Crepsley tour, it's also the first public event I've done on my home turf for quite a few years, so I'm go...

Victory in sight!

I received a follow-up email today from the librarian in Wyoming who had been challenged by a parent who demanded the withdrawal of Lord Loss from the bookshelves (see my blog of February 3rd for the full story).   We had our third committee meeting yesterday concerning the book challenge. This committee was comprised of the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum for our school district, the Director of Instruction for our school district, the Language Arts Coordinator for our school district...

Shout! Shout! Let it all out!

I received the following email from a fan in the States:   Although this might not mean much to you, I still wanted to let you know. It might not sound real, but it is true. While reading Demon Thief I came upon the part where it says that Kernel wasnt in fights often because he yelled. I was bullied a lot at school. So much that somedays I didn't even want to go. I didn't tell anyone about it because I was afraid. The teachers saw him bully me, but they didn't do anything about it. At schol ...

Never let the bullies win!

I received the following email from a librarian in Wyoming today:   Our school is currently considered junior high school grades 7-9, but next year we will have only grades 7-8.  We are currently going through the process of defending your book Lord Loss to allow it to stay on our library shelves.  A parent picked up the book and looked at the cover, read the back, and immediately decided that it "promoted inappropriate values" and was not "school appropriate".  The parent filled out a form r...